December 2009
7 posts
This song reminds me a lot of my first year in...
Emma's Bad Morning
As much as I thought I was having a bad morning, I wasn’t having as bad a morning as Emma. She’d bought a black cardigan in Pennies (Primark) last week, I remember this because she said that the only other black cardigan she had was 10 years old.
This morning she put it on, she rubbed the shoulder and felt something under it. She took it off to find…. a cockroach imbedded in the...
Side step and exit stage right.
I haven’t cried yet. It’s been a few hours, I haven’t cried. There are moments of numbness then my heart twists, I think about crying, I don’t. We’re back at the apartment, I’ve turned on the hot water, I’ll run a bath, I’ll cry there. I hope. Water runs into water, it’s hard to guess volume, just a small drop in a bigger ocean.
When my mother...
Blair witch project story.
I was in my first year of university when the Blair Witch Project came out. It scared me, nothing major, no brown trousers, no irrational fear of twigs. I thought it was a good film, scared me a bit, that was it.
In my second year I moved out of the digs I was in and into a house with a bunch of girls. One of those girls told me that she doesn’t watch scary movies, she doesn’t like...
Feeding Frenzy! by NPB
An Irish band but this is...
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Trains planes and mainly planes.
The flight was delayed, delayed as they hosed down the plane and put chewing gum in a hole. Our captain, Cliff Winterbottom told us we were taking the long way round, by long way he apparently wanted to by pass the Atlantic. Taking some route that involved sneaking up on America via Canada. Crafty bastard.
So, my Mum amused herself (for some reason on planes she becomes the child) playing the...